Redhook Nut Brown | Redhook Ale Brewery

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Notes / Commercial Description:
Ah, Spring…the season that keeps us guessing. Will it rain, or will the sun be out? Do I take advantage of the last days of skiing, or the first days of hiking? Do I put on jeans, or dare break out the shorts? The season comes with enough uncertainty, so Redhook gives you something you can always count on…our Nut Brown Ale. This medium dark beer is layered with rich malty aromas and flavors of chocolate, caramel, brown sugar, and a hint of vanilla. Although it may be dark in color, it’s refreshingly smooth and highly sessionable. Nut Brown is the perfect beer for spring.

Reviews by B967ierhunter177:

Pours a clear copper with no head or lace. The aroma is caramel with hints of nuts and wood. The flavor is caramel and nutty with root beer barrel candy flavor in the finish. There's also a mild hop bite at the front that fades as it warms. It's mouthfeel is light and a bit watery. Redhook Nut Brown is a decent beer, recommended.

More User Reviews:

The standard looking brown ale,nice medium brown color with minimal tan coloed head.Smeled nutty like the name says with malty sweetness coming through.Taste was a little bland compared to alot of others of the style I have had,sweet but I like a more earthy taste in my brown ales.This like alot of brown ales was too watery thin at the bottem of the glass.A more mass produced version of the style,but drinkable I guess.

I enjoyed this beer quite a bit. The beer poured a deep brown color with a decent head that left a little lace here and there. The smell was very nutty and good. The flavor was very nice with great nutty taste and a sturdy malt backbone. The hops did not shine through that much but the smootheness of the beer made up for the lack of bitterness. A good offering from Redhook.

This was a fairly good beer. It was a medium brown color with a tiny bit of red. It had a thick coffee-colored head with good lacing. It had a nutty, sweet smell. The taste was a little disappointing. It was mostly just sweet, with a minimal amount of hops. I couldn't discern the coffee/chocolate flavor that the banner claimed was there. Still, an OK beer.

Clear cinnamony brown color, decent 1/2 inch light tan head on a hard pour, fairly heterogeneous bubble sizes. Drippy laces. Slight berry aromas, mostly blueberry, along with a vague toasty maltiness. Low carbonation and creamy mouthfeel. A decent amount of caramel and cocoa (not chocolate) malt flavor with a bit of nutmeg. Really, little sense of hops at all, fine as accompanying the gentle malt sense. Finishes similar in body as it starts. Redhook brews never excite me, but this one is one of their better examples, fine as a pleasant (if unchallenging) Brown Ale (with a bit of wheat pitched in).

This beer poured to a dark brown with almost no head. Carbonation is also very mild. There's definitely nuts of a brown variety evident in the taste. It tastes a little rich, but the flavor is decent. It seemed to improve as it warmed, at least to a point.

This brown ale pours a nice, dark brown color off the tap, but there's no head to speak of. Tastes of sweet maltiness and possesses a nutty character, as well. Mouthfeel is thin and watery, leaving much to be desired. Due to the rather watery mouthfeel, this drinks easily, but it isn't one that I plan on coming back to in the future. Fairly standard fare all the way around.

This beer pours to a dark brown almost purple hue. It looks like a flat grape soda.

Almost immediately noticeable is a pungent molasses aroma; and ther eis also a smell that is similar to black dry-cured olives.

The taste is consistent throughout. There is a strong molasses, brown-sugar that is prevalent- this is somewhat offset- but really complimented by a woody smokiness. Almost like a cedar or mesquite soaked wet wood chip taste. There is a nice hoppy balance to this, and the sweetness is not cloying, although the molasses can be a bit omni-present.

The mouthfeel is very good here- and the fullness, almost port wine quality of the mouthfeel brings on a long nutty finish.

Red Hook has succeeded in creating an American version of a British classic, with a beguiling taste and aroma that could be just what you are looking for when sweater weather comes around.